‘Someone Wants Me Dead’, Mohbad’s Wife’

Cynthia Omowumi Aloba, wife of late Ilerioluwa Aloba a.ka. Mohbad, has informed the Lagos Coroner sitting in Ikorodu that her life is being threatened. She said the death threats started coming after her husband’s death.

The wife of the deceased who was brought to Candide-Johnson Court House, Ita-Elewa, Ikorodu under Police escort, told the Coroner, Magistrate Adedayo Shotobi, that she gets death threats every day including on social media.

“A lot of people are defaming me on ‘Tik Tok’.

“I left my husband’s house, because I am not safe there”, she said.

Under cross-examination by David Fadile, Counsel to the father of the deceased, Omowunmi said she had a good relationship with her father-in-law whom she described as her best friend. She denied obtaining a Canadian visa.

Explaining further, she said “On Monday, September 11’’, her late husband told her he wanted them to move to Canada, because he had too many opponents. She said they were gisting, and she had asked him why he didn’t  post her on social media, and the deceased told her it was to protect her and their baby. She also said he told her, “if they don’t get me, they might get to you or our baby”. That he has family overseas. That he doesn’t want anything to happen to me or his boy.

She said she had been with her late husband for over a decade, since her secondary school days.

Led in evidence by her Counsel, Taiwo Olawanle from Falana and Falana Chambers, Omowumi further narrated to the Coroner, the events that led to the death of her husband. She told the court that she had no fight with her husband, before his death.